Platform Engineer supporting production MySQL environments at Bold Commerce, enhancing reliability and operational maturity while collaborating with Engineering teams.
Responsibilities
Support the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of production MySQL environments and core production infrastructure
Manage and improve database replication, failover, backups, recovery, upgrades, and performance optimization
Contribute to cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and operational tooling initiatives
Support infrastructure-as-code and automation efforts using Terraform and related technologies
Improve monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility across systems and applications
Troubleshoot database, infrastructure, and application-related issues in production environments
Partner with Engineering and Platform teams to improve reliability, scalability, operational efficiency, and production readiness
Support incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation efforts
Contribute to operational best practices and continuous platform improvements
Participate in an on-call rotation supporting production systems
Requirements
5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Database Reliability, or similar roles
Strong experience managing and supporting production MySQL database infrastructure, including replication, failover, backup/recovery, upgrades, and performance optimization
Experience supporting highly available cloud infrastructure in environments such as GCP
Exposure to or experience working with technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation
Strong Linux systems administration, troubleshooting, and incident response experience
Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms
Scripting or automation experience using Bash, Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages
Familiarity with security, access management, and operational best practices
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible is considered an asset
Strong troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills
Comfortable operating independently in a lean, fast-moving environment with broad ownership and a focus on reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement
Benefits
Employer Paid Health & Dental Benefits - starting day 1!
Annual Health Benefit ($1,000 per year) to help you thrive!
Virtual mental health and EAP platform for support anytime
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